How to disable empty tags in comment_text()

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If you look in wp-includes/default-filters.php you’ll see all of the functions each comment is run through before it’s output. I’d guess it’s the last one, wpautop, which adds p tags in place of line breaks:

add_filter( 'comment_text', 'wptexturize'            );
add_filter( 'comment_text', 'convert_chars'          );
add_filter( 'comment_text', 'make_clickable',      9 );
add_filter( 'comment_text', 'force_balance_tags', 25 );
add_filter( 'comment_text', 'convert_smilies',    20 );
add_filter( 'comment_text', 'wpautop',            30 );

You can remove_filter( 'comment_text', 'wpautop', 30 ); to confirm, but you’ll lose paragraphs entirely.

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